Luca Anceschi

Luca Anceschi’s main research interests include the politics and international relations of Central Asia and the Middle East. His most recent book – Turkmenistan's Foreign Policy: Positive Neutrality and the Consolidation of the Turkmen Regime – is the first book-length analysis of Turkmenistani foreign policy published by a Western scholar. Luca has been recently awarded a DECRA Fellowship from the Australian Research Council, to investigate a project focusing on the role of Islam in the relations between two key Gulf States (Saudi Arabia and Iran) and the newly independent states of post-Soviet Central Asia.